˜yÐÄvlog

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wame

[ weym ]

noun

  1. Scot. and North England. belly.


wame

/ ·É±ðɪ³¾ /

noun

  1. dialect.
    the belly, abdomen, or womb
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of wame1

1325–75; Middle English (north and Scots ) wayme, variant of womb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of wame1

C14: northern variant of womb
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When Lancelot saw her waiting for him at the table, with Arthur beside her, the heart-sack broke in his wame, and the love inside it ran about his veins.

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Wame, wÄm, n. a provincial form of womb.—n.

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"O I did get the rose-water Whair ye wull neir get nane, For I did get that very rose-water95 Into my mithers wame."

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"But air 'll no fill the wame."

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I hae the auld, thumed, and faulded, and marked copy o' our domestic �sculapius yet; and, as I look at the store from which he used to draw the lore that enabled him to see, as if by a kind o' necromantic divination, a guid lucrative death, though still lodged in the wame o' futurity, I canna but drap a tear to the memory o' ane wha toiled sae hard for the sake o' his son.

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